For most people, the word farm conjures up images of dairy cows out to pasture, or amber waves of grain. But for two Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate students, the term could apply just as well to the herds of people trudging through South Station or flooding the gates at Fenway Park.The force of those feet striking the floor generates energy that - theoretically, at least - could be harvested and converted into electricity. What is a farm, after all, but a place to collect the resources people need - milk, wheat or even power?Source et suite »

Un service qui converti vos emails en alerte sms.

TeleFlip

Une technologie (avc la même caméra que google utilise pour google street je crois bien) qui film en 3D mais sur lequel on peut tourné comme dans un QuickTime Vr. C’est assez cool!

Flash: 360° video with PaperVision 3D

Le voila enfin. Le livre numérique d’Amazon. Ce lit plus comme une feuille de papier qu’un écran. Léger, contient environ 200 livres (sd card pour plus), wireless pour acheter des livres en ligne, syncronise des blogs, les grand journaux du monde avant de lever. J’ai hate d’avoir des commenaires de gens qui l’auront acheté!

This is the future of book reading. It will be everywhere.Source et suite »

Voici une explication un peu plus exaustive, acompagné d’un vidéo
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4232367.html

Une petite liste d’applicaitons AIR
Puisque nous sommes dans l’AIR, restons-y encore quelques instants avec cette petite liste d’applicationsSource et suite »

Parler ou naviguer, mais pas les deux en même temps, les pagettes, les imprimantes à aiguilles qui font un bruit d’enfer, les disquettes 3′5″, Internet basse vitesse avec les images désactivées par défaut, les téléphones portables inexistants, connexion limitée, AOL et sans oublier ce bon vieux windows 3.1! Voici ce qu’aurait été la vie de Jack Bauer au début des années 1990…Source et suite »

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.Source et suite »

Pour faire suite à un autre billet d’il y a quelques jours (Après le SaaS (Software as a Service), le HaaS (Hardware as a Service)), voici un autre autre exemple de HAAS.

Google Code Blog: Ganeti: Open source virtual server management software released

The third-generation Universal Serial Bus interconnect will transfer data at speeds up to 4.8Gbit/s, ten times faster than USB 2.0’s 480MBit/s. It will be backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, which is backwards-compatible with the first USB 1.1 definition.Source et suite »

We all know the term ‘Software as a Service (SaaS). The term SaaS was coined in a conference in 2005 and then popularized by Salesforce with its “No Software” motto. Today Google is one of the strongest backers of this approach, with such products as Gmail, Google Reader and Google Docs. And ever since Bill Gates’ famous Internet services memo in November 2005, Microsoft has been promoting the concept too.
But today we can coin have a new, similar term: HaaS, for ‘Hardware as a Service’. [Update: As several commenters have pointed out, in fact we didn’t coin the term HaaS. It seems that Nick Carr was the first, in March 2006.] Hardware has always been available as a service through dedicated hosting providers, but it was never so well abstracted until Amazon introduced S3 and EC2. With dedicated hosting, you still had to deal with dirty hardware issues like scalability; but Amazon makes it a totally painless experience. In other words, the relationship between EC2-S3 and dedicated/virtual hosting is similar to the one between SaaS and ASP (Application Service Providers) - EC2-S3 is an evolved version of dedicated or virtual hosting services.Source et suite »